From: Mark Gilbert (markgilbert@hotpop.com)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 01:42:58 EDT
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On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 02:52, Shu Gilbert Nakamura wrote:
>
>
> Hello
>
> I was just trying to install the latest AbiWord
> abiword-gnome-bidi-1.0.3-1.i386.rpm since I needed to write in Japanese.
> Besides, the currently installed abiword-0.7.14-7 in my Red Hat Linux
> 7.2 has
> recently had a strange tendency of starting automatically at every boot
> time although I did
> not set up anything related to this; so I wanted to replace it with the
> latest, expecting that the installation would be a piece of cake even
> for persons
> with little knowledge of computer science. But I got the complaint:
>
> [root@localhost AbiWord]# rpm -Uvh abiword-gnome-bidi-1.0.3-1.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> abiword-fonts is needed by abiword-1.0.3-1
> libgal.so.19 is needed by abiword-1.0.3-1
>
> And I could not find these abiword-fonts and libgal.so.19 but
> libgal19-0.19-2.i386.rpm
> as the closest one to libgal.so.19. The installation of this package has
> been
> also incomplete:
>
> [root@localhost RHL]# rpm -Uvh libgal19-0.19-2.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> gal >= 0.19 is needed by libgal19-0.19-2
>
> This sequence of dependency, even if I could handle, seems going on and
> on forever.
> So my conclusion is that I have been doing something wrong because the
> installation of
> AbiWord should not be that complicated. Would anyone please tell me what
> I am missing
> here?
>
> Regards,
> Gilbert
>
>
>
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